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Nuclear batteries have enormous potential as power sources and have many benefits over other types of portable power sources. Nuclear batteries can provide power for at least as long as the isotope half-life and the energetic nature of nuclear radiation means that only a small mass of radioisotope material is required to achieve a high power output and therefore they can have power densities that ...

An Interactive Structural Analysis Environment and Management System (iSAMS), designed to support the practice of simulation governance of engineered repairs of metallic and composite aircraft structures, is enhanced, certified and deployed for production deployment. Repairs to modern military aircraft require certified engineering analysis methods. Methods have evolved with the history of airfram ...

The computational framework designed to meet the technical requirements of Simulation Governance with the goal of enabling reliable predictions of damage accumulation caused by cyclic loading in metallic airframe components that have small initial flaws, will be validated at the component level. The predictive performance of the model to determine the remaining fatigue life of mechanical component ...

Throughout the SBIR Phase I, it was shown that it is possible to develop a solution which was capable of procedurally identifying and generating the support structures necessary for powder bed additive manufacturing (AM). In addition, it was shown that this new combination of support structures greatly increases the likelihood of a quality build. Upon this body of knowledge, the Phase II base will ...